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Another Green World brings together artists' works from the Belkin's collection, many of them recent acquisitions, to consider spaces that redraw the boundaries of power, play and form. The green world is part of the second-world Renaissance attitude born of a human desire to live in and control a world of human invention. The second world of art and speculative thinking (versus the first world made by a god or by nature) seeks a human-made order and meaning.
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Anna Be and Jeffrey Boone consider Kate Craig's Straight Jacket (1980) in this instalment of Works from the Collection, which considers works in the Belkin’s permanent collections in conversation with ongoing exhibitions, programs and the world around us. This entry is part of a series written by students in the 2023/24 Seminar in Contemporary Contextual Issues for Museums and Curatorial Practice led by Nikki Georgopulos (CCST 501). Students were asked to condition report, research and write descriptions about Kate Craig’s costumes that were recently gifted to the Belkin by Western Front and Hank Bull.
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Audrey Chan and Shabnam Shahkarami consider Kate Craig's Pink Dress (1975) in this instalment of Works from the Collection, which considers works in the Belkin’s permanent collections in conversation with ongoing exhibitions, programs and the world around us. This entry is part of a series written by students in the 2023/24 Seminar in Contemporary Contextual Issues for Museums and Curatorial Practice led by Nikki Georgopulos (CCST 501). Students were asked to condition report, research and write descriptions about Kate Craig’s costumes that were recently gifted to the Belkin by Western Front and Hank Bull.
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Joan Balzar (1928-2016) is recognized as a key figure in the development of abstract painting on the West Coast in the 1960s, a time when Vancouver emerged as a city of increased energy and experimentation in visual art. A graduate of the Vancouver School of Art, Balzar adopted a vocabulary of large-scale, optical, Hard-edge paintings, often including a neon element. These Op Art paintings were meant to create excitement in the retina. There is a connection to the 1960s interest in new electronic communications media as exemplified by the ideas of Marshall McLuhan.
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